isNew

setNew

This method marks the as previously persisted. By default all objects
are new objects. When the object is persisted first time, that object is
marked as 'not new' object

Parameters:

isNew - If true the Object is marked as new object.

getXMLElementTag

public java.lang.String getXMLElementTag()

Returns a piece of static info for the type of object this is invoked
upon. Examples are PreparedStatements for insert, update, delete,
and String containing a base the select statement for retrieving
instances of this type through the SQLInputStream

Returns:

returns the Statement required to store in Persitent Storage.
Incase of XML, it just returns the String. In the case of SQL
a JDBC PreparedStatement is returned.